Title: Validation issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Validation issue

 *  [cognitivecombine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cognitivecombine/)
 * (@cognitivecombine)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-issue-1/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I thought I would check the validation of the theme I just created and I have
   the following error:
 * `document type does not allow element "li" here; missing one of "ul", "ol", "
   menu", "dir" start-tag`
 * Which seems to refer to this:
 * `
    <div id="nav" class="links">
    - <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
 * </div>
 * Anyone have any idea what the issue could be?
 * Link:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cognitivecombine.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&outline=1&group=0&verbose=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cognitivecombine.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&outline=1&group=0&verbose=1)
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Len](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenk/)
 * (@lenk)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-issue-1/#post-697090)
 * The Validator indicates the lines the errors occurred. Take a look at your source
   code – you’re nesting list items incorrectly.
 *     ```
       <li><li class="...."></li>
        <li class="...."></li>
        </li>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [cognitivecombine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cognitivecombine/)
 * (@cognitivecombine)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-issue-1/#post-697092)
 * Ah yes thanks, fixed.

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 * Last reply from: [cognitivecombine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cognitivecombine/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-issue-1/#post-697092)
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